September 10 - George Bernard Shaw is admitted to hospital, having fractured a hip falling out of a tree he was pruning.[1] He returns home a few weeks later following a successful operation but subsequently suffers renal failure and dies at his home, Shaw's Corner (Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England), aged 94.

^"George Orwell, Author, 46, Dead. British Writer, Acclaimed for His '1984' and 'Animal Farm,' is Victim of Tuberculosis. Two Novels Popular Here Distaste for Imperialism". The New York Times. 22 January 1950.